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 6 Dec 2003 @ 18:51
Excerpts from Small Wonder, an essay by Barbara Kingsolver,
from her book of essays, Small Wonder. (2002) Harper Collins. NY.
I believe the things we dread most can sometimes save us. I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.
A mirror held up to every moral superiority will show its precise image: The terrorist loves his truth as hard as I love mine; he has a mother who looks on her child with the same fierce pride I feel when I look at my own. Someone, somewhere, must wonder how I could love the boys who dropped the bombs that killed the humanitarian-aid workers in Kabul. We are all beasts in this kingdom, we have killed and been killed, and some new time has come to us in which we are called out to find another way to divide the world. Good and evil cannot be all there is.
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 6 Dec 2003 @ 16:13
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Robert Frost More >
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 23 Nov 2003 @ 17:13
A drawing from the template of the inner circle
of the Aztec calendar stone.
[link]
"Although the Aztec Sun Calendar
appears to be very complex, it's made
from a number of simple elements. More
than anything, the Calendar is about
motion, or movement. The glyph for
movement is called Ollin (Oh-LEEN),
and forms the center of the Calendar.
It's made from the face of the Sun,
whose name is Tonatiuh (Toh-NAH-tyoo),
his hands, and the symbols of the
four Nahui (NAH-wee), or Ages of the Suns.
Tonatiuh wears a jade necklace, tipped
by eagle feathers, and a large jewel, which
is one of five jewels surrounding him in the
center of the Calendar. Above his head is
the tip of the SOLAR DART. The center of the
Calendar can be seen as a SOLAR DART, or
ray of light. It's also sometimes described
as the SOLAR EAGLE."
In this colored drawing,
the face of Tonatiuh, the Sun,
is left out of the centermost circle. More >
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 3 Nov 2003 @ 18:17
In wondering what the alignment of the four sites might refer to, one can extend the arc around the curvature of the Earth, and with a degree of approximation attributable to a length of string strung round a twelve inch globe, we find a configuration of continents centered on the south Atlantic. Within the Aztec circle of twenty days, the Alligator on the left approximates the position of Rapa Nui. Rain approximates the location of the Yucatan. The Jaguar, Stonehenge; and Grass, Giza. The distance between the first two approximates the distance between the second two. Who draws this line between these four places and what on Earth does it serve as Indicator for? More >
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 31 Oct 2003 @ 20:49
A solar year ago tonight, our neighbor Venus-Quetzalcoatl, passed through a conjunction to begin the first leg of
her-his synodic cycle of 584 days. She's been here as our morning star for some time now, and has recently emerged as our evening star. The circle, the square, and the pyramid of Egypt through the view of a Mayan mask. More >
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 26 Oct 2003 @ 12:55
Follow the Line
that passes through the four knots on the string.
Rapa Nui - Easter Island
Tikal - Yucatan
Stonehenge
Giza
What does this Line represent? More >
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 26 Oct 2003 @ 12:51
of Ollin,
through Rapa Nui,
Tikal, and Stonehenge. More >
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